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Pranati Naik eyes strong return at Asian Championships

Pranati Naik eyes strong return at Asian Championships

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Indian gymnast Pranati Naik is gearing up for the upcoming Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Zunyi, China later this month. The continental championship will be an important one for Pranati as the 30-year-old looks to build momentum after her return from injury. Pranati said her focus is on improving execution and landing while gradually increasing the difficulty of her vault routines. “We have only a few weeks before the Asian Championships. My focus is on my vault, execution and landing because the competition will be very tough,” Pranati said during an interaction facilitated by Sports Authority of India (SAI). Last month, Pranati won a silver medal in the women’s vault at the FIG World Challenge Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, marking her first major international competition after spending several months away from action due to an ankle injury. She admitted there were doubts before travelling to Uzbekistan but said the silver medal has given her confidence ahead of a busy season. “I hadn’t competed for five to six months because of the injury. The main goal …

Double World Cup vault medallist gymnast Pranati Nayak still struggling to emerge from Dipa Karmakar’s shadow | Sport-others News

Double World Cup vault medallist gymnast Pranati Nayak still struggling to emerge from Dipa Karmakar’s shadow | Sport-others News

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It’s a perception that overwhelmed gymnast Pranati Nayak – the 29-year-old vaulter – and silently gnawed at her confidence, before she seemed to have resolved it in her mind this year. Pranati – without naming Dipa Karmakar ever – is always at pains to convince the world that she is a competent gymnast in her own right, though since both specialise in the same event, Indians expect her to fill the big shoes of the Rio Olympics fourth-place finisher, who is now retired. However, there is no question of comparing the two, both of whom have battled their own challenges. Pranati qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, but faded out with a sub-par performance. It brought her jibes from her fraternity, and reduced her to a loner who hid her tears even from her parents. Story continues below this ad Double World Cup vault medallist gymnast Pranati Nayak. (Special arrangement) Pranati wakes up each morning, and goes about her training, having shifted base from Kolkata to Bhubaneswar, where she has no friends or comfort of familiarity. …

Pranati Nayak wins vault bronze at FIG World Cup

Pranati Nayak wins vault bronze at FIG World Cup

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India’s Pranati Nayak bagged a bronze medal in the vault event at the 2025 FIG Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup in Antalya, Turkey on Saturday. Nayak, 29, scored a total of 13.417 points in the vault final to finish on the podium. America’s Jayla Hang (13.667) and Claire Pease (13.567) took the gold and silver medals respectively. 🚨 #News | Pranati Nayak bags bronze at the FIG Antalya World Cup 🚨 👉Pranati Nayak scores 13.417 in the Women’s Vault Final at the FIG Antalya World Cup, securing a bronze medal for India 💐 Final standings:🥇Jayla Hang 🇺🇸 13.667🥈Claire Pease 🇺🇸 13.567🥉Pranati Nayak 🇮🇳… pic.twitter.com/Q1mnHswJQl — The Bridge (@the_bridge_in) March 22, 2025 Earlier, Nayak had scored 13.317 to qualify for the vault final. Nayak, an Olympian from the 2020 Tokyo Games, had also clinched the vault bronze at the FIG World Cup in Cairo last year, becoming only the third Indian woman to achieve the feat. She had finished fourth in the same event back in 2022. Hailing from Jhargram in West Bengal, Nayak is also …

‘Happy, but I am focused on upcoming events,” says Pranati Nayak after winning bronze at Cairo World Cup

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Indian Gymnast Pranati Nayak, on Saturday, bagged a bronze medal in the vault vent at the FIG Apparatus World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, with a score of 13.620. With this feat, she became only the third Indian woman to win a medal at the FIG World Cup. The 28-year-old, who trains at the Odisha AM/NS India Gymnastics High-Performance Centre, qualified for the vault final after finishing seventh with a score of 13.166 on Friday. Earlier in January, Pranati bagged two medals – gold in vault and bronze in balance beam – at the Senior Artistic Gymnastics National Championship held at the Gymnastics Centre in Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar. The Olympian will compete in the upcoming legs of the FIG Apparatus World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan (March 7 to 10), and Doha, Qatar (April 17 to 20). The points accumulated from the World Cup series will contribute to the qualification process for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Pranati Nayak wins the BRONZE🥉medal in Vault final at the Cairo World Cup. Pranati takes 20 important ranking points for the …

Pranati Nayak wins bronze, Dipa finishes fifth

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Pranati Nayak clinched the bronze medal in the women’s vault event at the FIG Apparatus World Cup in Cairo, Egypt on Saturday. The 28-year-old Pranati scored an aggregate of 13.616 points to stand on the podium of the Paris Olympics qualifying event. Another Indian in the final round, Dipa Karmakar, who had finished fourth in the 2016 Rio Olympics, signed off in the fifth spot in the eight-women final with a score of 13.383. Democratic People’s Republic Korea’s An Chang-Ok snatched the gold with a score of 14.233 while Bulgarian gymnast Valentina Georgieva took home the silver. She had the same points (13.616) as Pranati but finished ahead of the Indian on a technicality. Pranati, thus, became the only third Indian woman to win a medal at the FIG World Cup after Aruna Budda Reddy (2018) and Dipa (2018). Pranati Nayak wins the BRONZE🥉medal in Vault final at the Cairo World Cup. Pranati takes 20 important ranking points for the Olympic qualifications while Dipa Karmakar takes 16 points with three more World Cups to go. …

Dipa Karmakar, Pranati Nayak reach vault final in Gymnastics World Cup in Cairo

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Olympians Dipa Karmakar and Pranati Nayak qualified for the vault final at the FIG Apparatus World Cup, which is also a 2024 Paris Olympic qualifying event, in Cairo, Egypt on Friday. Dipa, who famously missed out on an Olympic medal in 2016 in Rio by making a fourth-place finish, scored an aggregate of 13.449 points to finish third in the qualification round. It was enough for her to secure a place in the final. Pranati, on the other hand, advanced to the final with a score of 13.166. Only the top eight gymnasts are eligible to play in the final. Dipa, who was handed a 21-month ban in February 2023 for failing a dope test conducted by the International Testing Agency, made a return to ring during the Asian Games trials. But despite topping the trials, she was deemed ineligible for India’s Asian Games campaign by the sports ministry. Dipa, however, made a comeback by winning the National Championships in an all-round event and a silver each in the vault and uneven bars. Pranati, who …